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Deodand
- - A personal chattel which had caused the death of a person, and for that reason was given to God, that is, forfeited to the crown, to be applied to pious uses, and distributed in alms by the high almoner. Thus, if a cart ran over a man and killed him, it was forfeited as a deodand.
Deplane
- verb - get off an airplane
Deplant
- - To take up (plants); to transplant.
Derwent
- unknown - The Derwent is a river in Yorkshire in the north of England
Descant
- noun - a decorative musical accompaniment (often improvised) added above a basic melody
- sing by changing register; sing by yodeling; "The Austrians were yodeling in the mountains"
- sing in descant
- talk at great length about something of one's interest
Descend
- verb - come as if by falling; "Night fell"; "Silence fell"
- come from; be connected by a relationship of blood, for example; "She was descended from an old Italian noble family"; "he comes from humble origins"
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
- Go down
- move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way; "The temperature is going down"; "The barometer is falling"; "The curtain fell on the diva"; "Her hand went up and then fell again"
Descent
- noun - a downward slope or bend
- a movement downward
- properties attributable to your ancestry; "he comes from good origins"
- Slope or incline,
- the act of changing your location in a downward direction
- the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
- the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors